+2016-01-21 Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org>
+
+ wcwidth: Replace also on OpenBSD 5.8
+ * m4/wcwidth.m4 (gl_FUNC_WCWIDTH): Check the value of wcwidth(0xFF1A).
+ * doc/posix-functions/wcwidth.texi: Update.
+
2016-01-20 Pádraig Brady <P@draigBrady.com>
gnu-web-doc-update: fix addition of new files
@item
This function handles combining characters in UTF-8 locales incorrectly on some
platforms:
-Mac OS X 10.3, OpenBSD 5.0.
+Mac OS X 10.3, OpenBSD 5.8.
@end itemize
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
dnl On Mac OS X 10.3, wcwidth(0x0301) (COMBINING ACUTE ACCENT) returns 1.
dnl On OpenBSD 5.0, wcwidth(0x05B0) (HEBREW POINT SHEVA) returns 1.
dnl On OSF/1 5.1, wcwidth(0x200B) (ZERO WIDTH SPACE) returns 1.
+ dnl On OpenBSD 5.8, wcwidth(0xFF1A) (FULLWIDTH COLON) returns 0.
dnl This leads to bugs in 'ls' (coreutils).
AC_CACHE_CHECK([whether wcwidth works reasonably in UTF-8 locales],
[gl_cv_func_wcwidth_works],
result |= 2;
if (wcwidth (0x200B) > 0)
result |= 4;
+ if (wcwidth (0xFF1A) == 0)
+ result |= 8;
}
return result;
}]])],